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a great Houfe of Duke Hamilton 
The Country all thereabout is very 
pleafant, and in all refpeds, for 
Woods, Failures, Corn, the 
befh we faw in Scotland. At Doug- 
las there is a Callle belonging to the 
Marquefs Douglas., half ,a Mile dif- 
tant from the Town ; which, though 
it be a free Burgh, and without 
Doubt of great Antiquity, yet is a 
pitiful, poor, fmall Place, fcarce an 
Houfe in it which will keep a Man 
dry in a Shower of Rain. In the 
Church we faw fome old Monuments 
of the Douglajfes, with two Hearts 
wrapped up in Lead, which it feems 
were of two of that Family that died 
in France, and were fent over hither. ■ 
Augujl the 24th, We rode to 
Dumfreis, or (as they Ipelled it) 
Drumfrefe, ■ 2 8 Miles, and in the 
Way faw Lead Mines, at a Place 
called 
